Did the Queensland State of Origin selectors make a good decision by pretty much repeating last year's team?

Question

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Queensland team: Karmichael Hunt, Brent Tate, Steve Bell, Justin Hodges, Greg Inglis, Darren Lockyer (capt), Johnathan Thurston, Petero Civoniceva, Cameron Smith, Steve Price. Tonie Carroll, Carl Webb, Dallas Johnson. Interchange: Shaun Berrigan, Jacob Lillyman, Nate Myles, Neville Costigan.

Answer 1

go blues

Answer 2

well they did win so yeah. although i would like to see a couple of different players, you know,mix it up a bit. anyway..GO THE BLUESS!!!!!!!

Answer 3

It should have been Matty Bowen honestly, where was he? and as a side note, whats with Tates form? he should have run towards centre and taken the hit, it would have ended the the play, but no he kicks it, allowing those buggers to score!! bloody h**l.

Answer 4

YES and NO.... Qld has selected the correct aggressive forward pack to try and contain the more fancied blues pack. Though doubt remains over the virtually all international backline that have been selected on their defensive prowess... Although they all are good attacking players leaving out both slater and bowen i beleive is a risk... If the blues forwards dominate than qld may need a peice of individual brilliance to keep them in the contest.. i beleive hunt is the correct choice at fullback but would of played slater on the wing in place of tate who is well past his best football.. Bowen although an excellent player is not a strong enough defender i beleive to secure a position(eg Mason trampling him in game 1 "06") and with the strong blues pack berrigan must be the utility player for his work rate(extra forward) Guess well find out soon enough..  N.s.w to win a tight one.!

Answer 5

yes, it was a great team last year and its great this year

Answer 6

With a comeback like that, looks like the selectors did a pretty decent job! Good job boys!

Answer 7

If it ain't broke - don't fix it.

Queensland will win.

Answer 8

Can't beleive they left out Billy Slater, his the most dynamic runner of the ball, your loss boys. Better selection next time, throw him a life line well take him !

Their a brilliant team but well win ! Go Blues !!

Answer 9

Don't care.................Go the Blues!!!!!!!!!

P.S,

K.Hunt would not be my first choice.......but then he is'nt in my top three of QLD fullbacks.It really annoys me that he got picked in the Aussie team.

Slater,Bowen and even Inglis are much better impact players.

Besides I don't think K.Hunt is a decent fullback anyway.He only got the gig in the OZ team because Minichello was ruled out....and for some reason he (Hunt) is a Channel 9 PIN-UP BOY!!!!LOL!!Sometimes you got to wonder.Same can be said of Brent Tate.He could be totally out of form but somehow still gets picked.

But that's only my opinion.

Answer 10

Does not matter who they put on the feild this year because WE are going to take the origin out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO THE BLUES

They will have to bring old alfy back "again" for them to even have half a chance.......................

Answer 11

Yes, d**n it!

Oh well.... go the Blues!

Answer 12

I would have put Slater as full-back. Better impact player.

Answer 13

NO they f*cked up again!

why would you put Hunt in - when there are obviously better players than him and they dont skip!  - will someone plse buy Hunt a skipping rope

Billy Slater and Matt Bowen should have been picked.

Oh well I spose the Qld side have got murris playing, more than NSW they never do select the murri/koori players.

Answer 14

Well they did win, did they not. All though there is another two more games so it's anyones game at this point.

Answer 15

how the selectores could leave bowen out i dont know... surely he would be more effective than tate. oh well it doesnt really matter, jarryd hayne wuld burn both of them